Working hypothesis: From deepfake Dali to black toothpaste
15 May 2019
Our regular column sorting the week's supernovae from the absolute zeros
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Axions may or may not exist - but we're not just making things up
15 May 2019
Everything theoretical physicists do is speculative, and likely wrong, except for the things we get right, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Selfish motives must not imperil the new space age
15 May 2019
As Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump rush to return people to space, we need to make sure nationalism and rivalries don’t mortgage the solar system’s future
NASA to get an extra $1.6 billion to put the first woman on the moon
14 May 2019
NASA's mission to get humans, including the first woman, to the moon again in 2024 has been named Artemis, after a Greek goddess of the moon
Greening the chemical industry requires massive amount of renewables
13 May 2019
To go green, the chemicals industry could use carbon dioxide from the air instead of fossil fuels, but this would require vast amounts of renewable energy
A quarter of people who meditate experience negative mental states
9 May 2019
More than a quarter of people who regularly meditate say they have experienced negative mental states, including anxiety, fear and disturbed emotions
Some deep-sea fish have evolved souped-up colour night vision
9 May 2019
Several species of fish living in the deep ocean have evolved extra copies of genes that enable them to see a range of colour hues in the near-darkness
My liver, your kidney: The world's first non-identical organ swap
9 May 2019
To get her mother a new kidney, Aliana Deveza instigated the world’s first swap of different organs between living donors, donating half her liver to a stranger
It may become impossible to tell if Iran starts making a nuclear bomb
9 May 2019
US hostility to arms control treaties has put Iran back on a path to building nuclear weapons, and inspectors could be left blind if the deal collapses
Penguin and seal dung nourishes organisms that are kilometres away
9 May 2019
Nitrogen from penguin and seal faeces in Antarctica can spread to an area up to 240 times the original colony, which serves as a vital nutrient for other plants and animals
